JavaFX ships built-in image loaders for BMP, GIF, JPEG and PNG image files. Since the ImageLoader API is not public, it is not possible to add third-party image loaders to support emerging image formats like SVG, WebP, AVIF or APNG.

Surfacing the ImageLoader API could be a valid approach to enable library authors to add these capabilities to the JavaFX ecosystem and may obviate the need to support new image formats in the OpenJFX project itself.